#why! it’s fruitless!

[sarellathesphinx]

My biggest character flaw is that every time I see something about abt Cait being just a robot without his own personality, I can’t help writing a tag novel about how much I refuse to accept it

[triple-starsss]

i am SOOOO INVESTED in this au like im about to start a stan twitter account i'm about to make one of those one direction imagines IM!!! SO NORMAL ABOUT THEM!! i'm curious though how do triple s leave eggman's management and how do they continue as a band following that since you mentioned it in your answer about the music?? and seriously tysm for making this au it drives me insane /pos

AAAH IM GLAD TO HEAR THAT LOL i should make a Triple☆S fancam at this rate (also wooo on a roll with asks today asbdjf)

AND OUGHH still working out the finer details of this but i have a sort of vague idea of how i want it to play out!! (also brace yourself this is long as hell)

This is during a period where they start touring and are essentially at the peak of their fame!! They're all incredibly exhausted from the almost daily concerts - mentally and physically. It gets bad enough that Silver ends up fainting live (this was their sort of wake up call that okay shit, we seriously can't be doing this anymore)

With Rouge's help they manage to sneak away from their tour bus prior to the concert happening the next day (which would've been one of the bigger ones in terms of ticket sales). They stay at her place for the mean time, THOUGH OBVIOUSLY THIS CAUSES A PROBLEM FOR EGGMAN!!! Can't exactly have a concert without Triple☆S performing and there were already a shit load of people waiting within the venue - he promptly cancels the event and has to refund all the tickets they sold for this concert (causing a significant dent in his profit as well as reputation).

Fans are incredibly worried (and frustrated)- they don't hear from the band themselves for about a week as they keep missing the tours, Eggman is continuing to lose A LOT of money and his patience!!

this is the part that i'm still working out BASJDHF but eventually they make an appearance again, on a little stage in the middle of the city center. People quickly take notice, crowding around them, barraging them with questions and complaints ETC ABSDJ. They encourage people to start recording and they talk about Eggman, his cruelty (to not only them but his other workers), greed, unethical practices THE WHOLE LOT. This info spreads like wildfire and eventually Eggman is taken away to be put on trial (and is clearly guilty) - effectively ruining his whole business and severing them from his management (yippee!!)

after all that they take a LOOOONGGG ass break from the spotlight absjdhf but they've grown to really enjoy the band and each other's company - choosing to instead be a bit more of an underground (ha sonic underground) group, performing music more catered to their tastes and initial vision for the band (this does dwindle their popularity but they find comfort in that).

They do obviously end up losing their apartment too absjdf - Sonic lives with Tails again, Silver finally gets his own place and Shadow sort of bounces between living with Rouge and back with Gerald and Maria!!

[machinesheart]

goobers!!

im not sure if Nabiu has boots or not, i don't remember

i might draw them some more!

[dreamyduckz]

heres a naibu doodle page! yippie!

[gayford]

i adore young fidds as much as everyone else n even see a lot of myself in him, but there's smth so comforting to me abt when he's older, he's very similar to those i grew up around

[alchemisticramblings]

did i do it right

aka: never let me draw the lycan again, what the hell is that thing 😭😭

(note: I Do Not Own The Background. it's just a screenshot from the show)

[hanzajesthanza]

allowed myself the time to spend to write a scene because the fancy took me, ended up destroying my sleep schedule to write it, woke up at 4 pm just to realize it’s not good and i would need to redo it

[kotilae]

taking poison damage while building a whole character from scratch in blender

[ofpd]

I’d be interested in a non exr fic rec list

ok yes sorry this took a while to answer, i wanted to get through some fics on my tbr before posting it :)

The Pursuit of Light | enjolras & feuilly | 3.3k

"Let's start with the first conjugation," Enjolras says, taking up the pen beside him and scribbling down a list of words Feuilly is entirely unfamiliar with. "I hope my handwriting isn't too arcane."

True Fraternity | enjolras & feuilly | 2k

When Feuilly goes on a trip with his bourgeois friends to practice shooting, he feels increasingly out of place.

Farouche | combeferre/enjolras | 0.8k

Enjolras and Combeferre's friendly debate about love, family structures, and women goes a wee tiny bit off the rails, and Enjolras reacts even more severely to being hit on when he's interested than when he's not.

Driven Like the Snow | éponine/marius, éponine/montparnasse | 2.9k

The night after the Gorbeau robbery, Eponine wanders the streets of Paris.

Unravel | éponine/marius | 18.2k

Éponine Thénardier can "unravel" time--jump backward a few minutes or hours and let events play out again, sometimes slightly different from before. It's a secret little thing that she uses occasionally, to get herself out of trouble or avoid minor accidents. She's never tried to do anything big with it because, on the whole, she's happy with her life--her family's inn is successful, they live in a nice neighborhood in Paris, and she's in love with a kind and beautiful boy named Marius. But when her lover is killed on the barricades of the June Rebellion, she has to try to fix it--even if it means using her power on a scale she's never dreamed of. Even if it means throwing away everything else she has.

Under a Moonlit Sky | bahorel/fantine | 25.1k

The year is 1817. After Félix Tholomyès' little suprise, a despairing Fantine thinks she might go to her hometown of M-sur-M to find work. Instead, she decides to find Tholomyès and make him acknowledge Cosette. Enter a young man who would love to have an excuse to travel South (as far away from the law faculty as possible) and is uniquely suited to hunting down terrible men...

In Which Is To Be Learned The Name of Enjolras's Fake Fiancée | cosette & enjolras | 52.3k (unfinished)

It was true, Cosette allowed, that he was nothing at all like the beautiful young man from the Luxembourg, but she must not judge him unkindly for that. The world was full of young men, and it would be quite tedious if all the handsome ones were handsome in the same way.

[kinnoth]

ok so i think actually the thing that offends me most about the DLC story/ending is that ......this doesn't give us any new information? it doesn't give us new context or motivation or anything.

you, player character, set out in the base game to conquer the lands between and become the new elden lord. to this end, you fight and extinguish other potential elden lords.

in the DLC.... you set out to conquer the shadow lands. to this end, you fight and extinguish another potential elden lord

like there are 8 "elden lord" endings already, and 2 "alternate" endings where you a) choose to end all life forever with the frenzied flame or b) choose to leave the planet with ranni. the thing is, the "alternate endings" are NIGH UNIVERSALLY considered "better" or at least the "more complete" endings because they give us an option, a narrative that transcends the cycle of gods and elden lords.

making miquella/radahn yet another cog in the cycle of gods and elden lords gives us FUCKING NOTHING that we don't already have.

It's like, we know the system is corrupt and pointless and the concept of "moral good" is a lie and the concept of "moral bad" is bottomless. So why are we upholding the system. Why not burn it down or abandon it? Why are we returning to the idea that the only way to affect change is within this pointless, corrupt system. Why are we fighting yet another wannabe elden lord when we've established that elden lords are fucking peons and their gods are sock puppets to a formless, ambivalent Other.

We solved this fuckin riddle already!!! It was the giant amoeba what lived in mommy god's brain! How do we find this out and take miquella seriously! He's like fourteen steps behind!

Tldr miquella should have given us a different way of ordering the world that is separate from the established order. I think he should have advocated for the destruction of gods in its entirety. I think he should have been baiting you to kill all his siblings, his mother and father, the amoeba what lives in their brain, and then at the end of it, been like, good, now you kill me. I am the last piece of filth out of the room. Choose my ending and at last the world can be clean. That's ruthlessness. That's the greater good. That's the kindness of a god.

I STILL THINK MIQUELLA SHOULD HAVE BEEN MELINA

[jinstronaut]

anyways being a mean girl on the internet at a grown age in a space where the thing we’re celebrating is so meaningful and lovely is such a bad take

[regheart]

i keep telling myself that i won't be mean or bitter about it but tell me why i'm on the jily tag on ao3 searching specifically for first war fics and give up on page five after at least half a dozen reiterations of atyd (translations, alternate pov, fanfic of fanfic), three fics that are mainly jegulus and about ten that are mainly any other ship

[aloera]

aloera oh my fucking god (<- just woke up to the notification of a new aloera fic posted (r/offmychest) and read it immediately ofc)

aloera OH M Y G O D

aloera OH MY FFUCKINJ GOF

anyway ty for sharing you are the captain of krbk fics to me it is literally a law of nature that i will read the fic as soon as i see the notif i d o n o t c a r e what is going on irl i will sit in the corner with my phone and READ do not talk to me so yeah. ty lol <3

you are. so sweet shut up i had the same oh my god reaction reading this... this means so much to me!!! i appreciate it so much!!!! i am so grateful that we r all unfortunately still stuck in the krbk pit even in 2024!!!! mwah <333333 thank u sm for reading im glad you enjoyed it

[dreamyduckz]

heres some art of a scared blueberry mage from the pilot of the fruitless quests of naibu

[silverpiwon]

Not to be toxic but I almost like reading about piwon antis and what kind of stuff do they get up to

It’s very vindicating for me

[kaurwreck]

ooh you’re reading beast! when you finish, and only if you’re inclined, i’d be very curious to see your thoughts on how you make sense of chuuya’s character in that universe? personally, i have trouble analyzing him because he only appears for an insignificant paragraph cameo with virtually zero impact on the story— and tbqh there’s a tiiiiny tinhat part of me that suspects he was only included at all to head off questions about another potential dark-era-esque absence— but regardless of that and assuming asagiri did have something in mind with including him considering he is in there at the end of the day, i’d love to know how you make sense of him within that narrative?

yes, chuuya's hypervigilance and dazai's dismissiveness of him illustrate how far dazai's gone and how unreachable he's become, expositing Dazai's route of self destruction and foreshadowing his suicide.